(Editor's note: Tri-City Weekly entertainment writer Myles Cochrane has expanded his horizons a little and is co-producer of the Otep show.)

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Otep Shamaya can captivate by singing melodically, screaming passionately as well as rhyming confidently and she blends it all together artistically to serve a much deeper spiritual purpose.

While the style-synthesizing and dynamic metal goddess is additionally known for her masterful skills in poetry, writing and acting, it has been her pursuits in fusing music and activism that have incited comparisons to the likes of Zach de la Rocha of Rage Against the Machine, System of a Down, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie. After tour stops in New York City, Tampa, Denver, Dallas, Phoenix and more, her all-female-fronted "Destroy to Create Tour" will stimulate the senses in Eureka on Thursday night during a show at Nocturnum.

"I was excited about this lineup because if you look at the touring festivals there are no women-fronted (heavy rock) bands anywhere," Shamaya said. "We have to continue to carve out a place in this world together."

Shamaya's Los Angeles alt-metal four-piece Otep, Hollywood act Butcher Babies (their frontwomen were just listed by Revolver Magazine as two of the "Hottest Chicks in Metal"), Texas goth-punk duo One-Eyed Doll (Guitar Player Magazine noted frontwoman Kimberly Freeman as one of the "Top 20 Most Extraordinary Guitarists") and local melodic-rockers Angels Cut will take the stage in Eureka while showgoers will have the opportunity to expel energy on the thrash-floor, mosh, sip drinks and ride "Butch the Mechanical Bull."

And while Shamaya has made 2D TV appearances on HBO's "Def Poetry," Bravo's "Date My Ex" and TLC's "L.A. Ink," she's amped and ready to appear in true-to-form 5D for her fans in Humboldt (also known as the Tribe).

"We are excited to play there," Shamaya said. "Be ready for a complete and total mutiny of the senses. The Tribe is comprised of people of all races, ages, sexualities, both genders and religious affiliations or lack thereof. We are bound together by the healing and empowering energy of art."

While the Tribe's presence on Facebook alone has garnered more than 300,000 "likes," the metal star said feelings of aloneness as a child led her to become such a passionate musician and activist.

"I remember feeling very isolated as a child," Shamaya said. "No one cared about art the way I did, no one felt or experienced emotions the way I did. I was extremely sensitive to events in the world that didn't appear to bother anyone else. I felt separated from everyone. Art was my way of connecting."

After releasing five critically acclaimed LPs via Capitol and Victory Records, Otep will release a new live album in November and a new studio LP in January 2013.

"We recorded several shows and we chose the one that possessed the most intensity and could convey the raw, organic power of our live shows," she said. "(For the studio LP) the emotional beacon glowing within me seems to be pointing towards something very dark, intense and emotional."

The Eureka show will be Otep and company's second-to-last show of their current tour. Shamaya said that the euphoric moments this go-around have been plentiful and she expects that to continue in Humboldt County.

"(Those moments) happen when your spirit seems to leave your body and coagulates in the ether with the audience," she said. "Spiritual intercourse. Those are the moments I live for."

Fans at Nocturnum should expect to hear new material from Otep as well as hits like the new Doors cover "Not to Touch the Earth," "Fists Fall," "Smash the Control Machine," their cover of Nirvana's "Breed," "Blood Pigs" and more.